help2man install failure (sudo port -d upgrade outdated) on Snow Leopard

[dxjones@…]

There is a problem related to "help2man".

All commands fail when trying to update "help2man", including:

# sudo port -d upgrade outdated

# sudo port -d install sox

Here is the debugging output:

[code] ---> Configuring help2man DEBUG: Using compiler 'Mac OS X gcc 4.2' DEBUG: Executing org.macports.configure (help2man) DEBUG: Environment: CFLAGS='-O2 -arch x86_64' CPPFLAGS='-I/opt/local/include' CXXFLAGS='-O2 -arch x86_64' MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET='10.6' PERL='/opt/local/bin/perl' CXX='/usr/bin/g++-4.2' F90FLAGS='-O2 -m64' LDFLAGS='-L/opt/local/lib' OBJC='/usr/bin/gcc-4.2' FCFLAGS='-O2 -m64' INSTALL='/usr/bin/install -c' OBJCFLAGS='-O2 -arch x86_64' FFLAGS='-O2 -m64' CC='/usr/bin/gcc-4.2' DEBUG: Assembled command: 'cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_help2man/work/help2man-1.37.1" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --enable-nls' checking for perl... /opt/local/bin/perl checking for module Locale::gettext... no checking for msgfmt... /opt/local/bin/msgfmt checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 accepts -g... yes checking for /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for library containing dlsym... none required checking for library containing bindtextdomain... -lintl configure: error: perl module Locale::gettext required Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_help2man/work/help2man-1.37.1" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --enable-nls " returned error 1 DEBUG: Backtrace: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_help2man/work/help2man-1.37.1" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --enable-nls " returned error 1

while executing

"$procedure $targetname" Warning: the following items did not execute (for help2man): org.macports.activate org.macports.configure org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install Error: Problem while installing help2man To report a bug, see <​http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets> code